33. That He shall
come to judge the quick and the dead we are taught by many testimonies
of the divine Scriptures. But before we cite what the Prophets say on
this point, we think it necessary to remind you that this doctrine of
the faith would have us daily solicitous concerning the coming of the
Judge, that we may so frame our conduct as having to give account to
the Judge who is at hand. For this is what the Prophet said of the man
who is blessed, that, “He ordereth his words in
judgment.”33883388Ps. cxii. 5 When,
however, He is said to judge the quick and the dead, this does not mean
that some will come to judgment who are still living, others who are
already dead; but that He will judge both souls and bodies, where, by
souls are meant “the quick,” and the bodies “the
dead;” as also the Lord Himself saith in the Gospel, “Fear
not them who are able to kill the body, but are not able to hurt the
soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in
Gehenna.”33893389Matt. x. 28